Bible Lands Illustrated; A Complete Handbook of the Antiquities and Modern Life of All the Sacred Countries (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... by Herod the Great from an insignificant place to be a splendid city. In twelve years he built a wall around the town and decorated it with splendid buildings. He 'named it Cesarea, in honor of Augustus Caesar, the Emperor. The buildings were made of white stone. There was a theatre (from which Herod Agrippa was carried out to die), and an amphitheatre, with aqueducts for the conveyance of water, and a temple dedicated to Caesar, and many other splendid buildings. Paul was here several times. It was here that Agabus represented, by binding his own two hands, the imprisonment of Paul at Jerusalem if he should venture to go up there. Nevertheless, ready even to die for Christ, 'they took up their "carriages" (rather what was carried, their luggage), and went up to Jerusalem' (Acts xxi. 15). At a later time, for two whole years he was a prisoner here at Cesarea. It was in the palace in this city he so spake of "righteousness, "There was a certain man in Cesarea, called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band."--Acts X. 1. ' Upon aset day, Hemd, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost."--Acts xii. ai, 33. temperance, and judgment to come," that he made Felix tremble. It was here the power of his logic forced King Agrippa to exclaim, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." And it was from this harbor he embarked for Rome (Acts xxiii. 33; xxiv. 25; xxvi. 28; xxvii, 1, 2). It was here that Herod Agrippa, on the 6th of August, A. D. 44, in the mid...